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Environment of Care Checklist

by Nicole Tietz, from the Community

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This Environment of Care checklist supports hospital teams in assessing safety and compliance across patient care areas. It covers corridors and egress, life safety systems and fire equipment, glucometer hygiene, crash cart readiness, and equipment warmers with documented temperature ranges. Inspect clean and dirty utility rooms, storage practices, oxygen cylinder handling, and nutrition room logs. Review medication room security, labeling, and cold-chain monitoring. Verify eyewash stations, infection control practices, hand hygiene, isolation signage, and biohazard labeling. Includes staff competency checks, preventative maintenance tags, alarm response, and protection of patient information.

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Environment of Care Rounds Checklist
This Environment of Care Rounds checklist helps hospitals and clinics inspect critical safety domains across clinical and non-clinical areas. It covers review of previous inspections, fire prevention and door compliance, electrical safety, general safety and housekeeping, hazardous materials and biohazard controls, medication storage, security management, utilities and building systems, primary care office readiness, cleanliness of patient and public areas, and food and nutrition standards. Use it to document findings, maintain compliance, and improve patient and staff safety during routine rounds.
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Environment of Care Checklist

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